Biohazard 2 Beta 1 (Very first beta)

[Guest]

I think they're just placeholders used for perspective and being able to get things in the right proportion. Things like the height of the table, the length of the room relative to a character model etc...

[Guest]

I think they're just placeholders used for perspective and being able to get things in the right proportion. Things like the height of the table, the length of the room relative to a character model etc...

Now that you mentioned that, i find robert kendo model is very similar to chief irons, they wanted to get prescriptive right before they started on the chief's model to see if it can blend with the room environment ! geez i never thought of that or maybe claire was supposed to meet him later in the game (if he survived the gun shop attack), because in beta 2 he was standing behind the counter fighting with leon the zombies, and started to kill normal people due to insanity as well !

[Biohazard 1995]

BH2 Beta Ver.?

[Guest]

I'm pretty sure all of these besides the bottom two are considered to be in the beta 1 time line, where did you find these pictures? which location are the bottom two picture? as good as i know RE2 and it's area's my mind is drawing a blank about the bottom two pictures. It seems like they are from scenario 2 ( it's been awhile since I've touched RE2 )

[Biohazard 1995]

which location are the bottom two picture?

Spoiler:

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The top picture (with Moths) and the Botton 2 Picture are from the same (Sublevel) Area.
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[Enigmatism415]

Does anyone have the background files of this beta? I'd really like to see the area beyond that double-door (I hope it's like a textured version of the BH1.5 one).

[biohazard_star]

Does anyone have the background files of this beta? I'd really like to see the area beyond that double-door (I hope it's like a textured version of the BH1.5 one).

Do you mean the boiler room with the lift and the box puzzle?

The boiler room in Beta 2 is actually a bit different from the version in final. The lighting and some of the textures are different. But the biggest difference is that it's still using almost all of the camera angles from the untextured version from 1.5. The room in the retail version has the camera angles tweaked a bit. The Beta 2 version is probably the closest to how the finished version in 1.5 would've looked like:


1.5/Trial > Beta 2 > Retail (note the camera angles)

[Enigmatism415]

Nice, I didn't know about the slightly altered camera angles. I was hoping that there was a fleshed-out version of the boiler room that had the double-door instead of the elevator:

[Guest]

Spoiler:

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The top picture (with Moths) and the Botton 2 Picture are from the same (Sublevel) Area.
(Click to see the full size!):

Well done, very interesting to see that beta2 had some 1.5 elements left. I've never ever noticed this.

[Guest]

Nice pictures!

[Chris' Boob]

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Kendo telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now.

[Biohazard 1995]

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Marvin telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now

Beta Marvin Scene

[biohazard_star]

Seems like they just retextured the box to match the wall. The lid doesn't match the color of the rest of the box, so I think it could be a 3d object.

[Darkside05]

Don't think it could be an inventory box, it would be such a pointless odd spot to put a box between two puzzle statues.

[Guest]

I've never noticed this before. I didn't want to quote the whole picture but in the beta pictures of the red jewel, the king guy and the licker, on the mounted wall, there is no king guy, but there's a odd-looking chest in front of where it would be.

Was this what the inventory chest was going to look like or something else?

And is there a video or anything that shows Kendo telling Leon/Claire to shoot him in the head? First I've heard of it, until now.

I really believe it was just a "place holder" being used until they put the actual statue in that spot. The lid kind of looks like it does open, maybe that's where the item can be found after completing the puzzle? but i'm heading more towards it being a place holder.

Seems like they just retextured the box to match the wall. The lid doesn't match the color of the rest of the box, so I think it could be a 3d object.

This is what leads me to believe the item you receive from the puzzle is found inside of it, the lid opens or unlocks after putting both of the "hearts" in place.